Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Add kvfree_sensitive() for freeing sensitive data objects

From: David Howells
Date: Tue Apr 07 2020 - 16:20:06 EST


Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> sensitive data objects allocated by kvmalloc(). The relevnat places

"relevant".

> if (unlikely(key_data))
> - __kvzfree(key_data, key_data_len);
> + kvfree_sensitive(key_data, key_data_len);

I think the if-statement is redundant.

David